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The full edition of July’s containment news is available here with all of the news, stories, and live links: *Containment News July 2016 PDF Version* ‘Bonfire of Environmental Legislation’ “It has been depressing that the environment has played virtually no part in pre or post referendum political debates” Whether you voted in or out, whether you…

The full edition of June’s containment news is available here with all of the news, stories, and live links: *Containment News June 2016 PDF Version* ‘Environmental Impacts of Brexit’ ‘5% of UK beaches are poor quality, the highest percentage in the EU. The number rated as “excellent” quality has slumped by more than a fifth since last…

The full edition of March’s containment news is available here with all of the news, stories, and live links: *Containment News May 2016 PDF Version* ‘Conspiracy Theory Alert’ “The bathing water season starts on the 15th May, so if you have been using our coastal waters since the 1st October 2015, statistically you’ve not really…

The full edition of March’s containment news is available here with all of the news, stories, and live links: *Containment News April 2016 PDF Version* ‘Sewage Free Seas’ The Environment Agency has opened a stakeholder consultation on how often water companies should be legally permitted to discharge raw, untreated human sewage effluent directly into the nation’s beaches,…

The full edition of March’s containment news is available here with all of the news, stories, and live links: *Containment News March 2016 PDF Version* ‘Lacklustre Direction for Environmental Targets’ The recipe for success when setting goals and targets walks the fine line between making them a worthwhile challenge and realistically achievable. Christopher weighs 192 kilograms, after…

The full edition of February’s containment news is available here with all of the news, stories, and live links: *Containment News February 2016 PDF Version* ‘Pollution Fines Increase’ There has been a very significant increase recently in the size of fines being handed out in England to water companies for sewage pollution incidents. Thames Water…

The full edition of January’s containment news is available here with all of the news, stories, and live links: *Containment News January 2016 PDF Version* ‘Risking Environment Agency Cuts’ I’ve lost count of the number of times that I have heard a politician say ‘lessons will be learnt’, it’s normally followed by a barrage of…

The full edition of November’s containment news is available here with all of the news, stories, and live links: *Containment News November 2015 PDF Version* ‘Pollution Monitoring May to September Only’ Imagine what would happen if the UK Government announced that speed limits would remain in place, but speed cameras and Police patrols would only monitor motorists…

The full edition of October’s containment news is available here with all of the news, stories, and live links: *Containment News October 2015 PDF Version* ‘Nurdles’ As Editor of Containment News and Flood News since 2009 I often feel jaded by the Groundhog Day repetition of pollution incidents, feeble excuses and lenient fines. So it was…

The full edition of September’s containment news is available here with all of the news, stories, and live links: *Containment News September 2015 PDF Version* ‘PM Swims in Sewage’ I’ve commented before on the woeful lack of coverage of water related pollution and sewage incidents in the national media. Therefore it is left to the…

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